Welcome

The Team System Users Group (TSUG) Virtual Edition (VE) is dedicated to creating a community for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System users and enthusiasts wherever they may be. The group will provide a social forum, education opportunities at all levels, and the ability to share our Team System successes and stories with each other.

What makes the TSUG-VE different from other User Groups is that people all over the world can participate. We have different regional meetings each month targeting different time zones around the globe. The meetings work cooperatively but offer different content and topics.  By joining TSUG you can attend any or all of the different regional meetings based on the topics and meeting times best for you.

 

January Meeting (EMEA) Meeting Date: Thursday, January 21th, 2010 Time: 10:00AM PDT (1800 UTC) [Add to Calendar] Test Driven Development in Visual Studio 2010 Test Driven Development (TDD), also frequently referred to as Test Driven Design, is a development methodology where developers create software by first writing a unit test, then writing the actual system code to make the unit test pass. The unit test can be viewed as a small specification around how the system should behave. Microsoft has worked hard to reduce the friction for doing TDD in Visual Studio 2010. In this presentation, you will see how to reduce the number of keystrokes to write your test, generate your code, and refactor. Richard Hundhausen is the president of Accentient, a company that specializes in Application Lifecycle Management using Visual Studio Team System. He has over 25 years of software and database development experience and 20 years of training and presentation experience. Richard is a Microsoft Regional Director, Visual Studio Team System MVP, and author of "Working with Visual Studio Team System" (Microsoft Press).

January Meeting (Americas) Meeting Date: Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Time: 5:00PM PDT [Add to Calendar] Two Topics for the Price of One: UML Modeling and MTLM You’ve heard about Automated UI Testing, IntelliTrace, and hierarchical work items, but the new Modeling tools and Microsoft Test and Lab Manager are often overlooked when people talk about what’s great about Visual Studio 2010.  In this presentation, we’ll highlight the features and capabilities of both the modeling tools and Microsoft Test and Lab Manager.  We’ll connect the dots by tracing modeling artifacts all the way to the testing effort in Microsoft Test and Lab Manager. Trent Nix is a Dallas, Texas-based consultant with Notion Solutions, a consulting services firm helping companies improve their software development capabilities through the use of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.  Trent is a frequent speaker on Team Foundation Server and application lifecycle management topics at user groups and industry events.  When he's not immersed in the ins and outs of software process and Team System, Trent hacks away at web application development and Silverlight.  Contact Trent via Twitter at @trentnix or at http://www.trentnix.com.